Ypres, 1914, an Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Ypres, 1914, an Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff (Classic Reprint) written by Otto Schwink and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ypres, 1914, an Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff The German book of which a translation is here given was written in the autumn of 1917 by Captain Otto Schwink, a General Staff Officer, by order of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army, and is stated to be founded on official documents. It forms one of a series of monographs, partly projected, partly published, on the various phases of the war, but is the only one that is available dealing with operations in which the British Army was engaged. Several concerned with the Eastern theatre of war have already appeared, and one other entitled 'Liege-Namur, ' relating to the Western. Field-Marshal Viscount French, in his book '1914, ' has said that the period 27th to 31st October during the first battle of Ypres was 'more momentous and fateful than any other which I directed during my period of service as Commander-in-Chief in the field. 31st October and 1st November will remain for ever memorable in the history of our country, for during those two days no more than a thin and straggling line of tired-out British soldiers stood between the Empire and its practical ruin as an independent first-class Power.' The German account accentuates the truth of Lord French's appreciation of the great peril in which the Army and the Nation stood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.